Lauren is a librarian who has worked in public libraries for over five years and two years as a high school librarian. Lauren's current position includes teaching the basics of computers and the internet to adults at the public library. She has developed materials and videos that help patrons download free library e-books onto their many devices which include Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iPad, and smartphones

She has a masters degree in library science and a bachelors in English literature. Lauren has been writing regular articles on a website for book lovers as well as her own site centered on library related topics where she maintains the content, Wordpress back-end, and SEO.

Highlights

Orders

5

Last Login

6/15/16

Elite Skills

2

Samples

11

Lauren B's Women Industry Experience

1 Projects Completed

Lauren took several classes on feminist literature during her undergraduate work at UC Irvine and has since written a articles that are intended to appeal to women in a positive, healthy way for the online women's community.

Industry Projects

Software100+

Education100+

Electronics100+

Entertainment50+

Non Profit50+

Technology50+

Gaming4

Craft4

Web Development2

Women1

Summary of Industry Experience

Software

Lauren works with the public where she teaches adults how to use computers. Her role at the public library includes making materials that will guide them through basic computer functions such as e-mail and her classes are attended by mostly senior citizens in the community who want to learn. Internet browsers are the major kind of software in Lauren's classes, but she also covers programs like iTunes, PDF viewers, and word processors.

Education

Lauren worked as a school librarian for several years, giving her a great deal of experience communicating with school administrators, teachers, parents, and students grade 7-12.

While she enjoys writing intriguing book reviews for kids, she has plenty of experience creating instructional materials, tutorials, and notices.

Electronics

Lauren's current job allows her to help customers load e-books, streaming video, audiobooks, and music onto their e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Not only does she get a chance to use the latest devices, but she creates written instructions that she can print out for customers to use at home.

Lauren has the most experience with Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, Nook, NookHD, Kobo, KoboArc, and the whole family of iOS products including the iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPods of varying generations.

Entertainment

Whether it be bestselling novels, the latest movies, or popular music, Lauren has a good idea of what is popular in Los Angeles. As a librarian who works in a library in LA, Lauren can see how many library patrons have reserved a particular book by viewing these titles in the library's computer software. She also gets a good idea of what people like by what is asked for most often at the public library. Lauren writes recommendations for a different bestselling novel each week that is posted at her library's branch.

Non Profit

Since Lauren works at a public library, she has had the pleasure of doing promotional work for various non-profit organizations that are hosted at the branch's meeting room. She had created promotional materials for Peace Corps, VITA, Farhang, and many others. The public library itself also functions as a non-profit organization and Lauren has created proposal letters and strength weakness and opportunities to threat analysis reports.

Technology

Lauren's current job allows her to help customers load e-books, streaming video, audiobooks, and music onto their e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Not only does she get a chance to use the latest devices, but she creates written instructions that she can print out for customers to use at home.

Lauren has the most experience with Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, Nook, NookHD, Kobo, KoboArc, and the whole family of iOS products including the iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPods of varying generations.

Gaming

Having started gaming at a young age with titles like Quest for Glory, Baldur's Gate, and Zelda, Lauren is familiar with the gaming industry and how it has grown. Being married to an independent game designer, Lauren offers a unique perspective that she takes seriously. She writes game reviews for both console and PC games, and is intrigued by the ever-growing subsection of video games that are intended to appeal to women.

Craft

Lauren is a librarian at a public library that frequently hosts craft projects for children, teens, and sometimes adults. The projects often require organization, coordination, and written instructions.

Web Development

Lauren has developed web sites using Wordpress, Google Sites, and HTML and CSS on Dreamweaver. She completed a class in graduate school that focused on using CSS and professional looking table elements to build a web page.

She has made several wedding websites for friends and clients in addition to the professional websites she creates for each library where she has worked. Lauren keeps a blog that was designed with a Wordpress theme that was carefully edited through CSS style sheets and HTML.

Women

Lauren took several classes on feminist literature during her undergraduate work at UC Irvine and has since written a articles that are intended to appeal to women in a positive, healthy way for the online women's community.